Notes on the startup of the oldest programmers: full-text search, data mining, and recommendation engine application 37

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After about two weeks, the conflict with the shangcong network gradually subsided. Although Wu Yan was not the main character of the incident, he was also deeply influenced by the incident.
Wu Yan found that in the two weeks of conflict with the shangcong network, the number of independent IP addresses accessed each day reached tens of thousands. However, after two weeks of accumulation, at present, the website's Daily Independent IP address is basically maintained at around several hundred, which is already quite good. This is a level that Wu Yan did not dare to think about before. Currently, the number of Alexa websites has reached around three thousand. Within two weeks, the number of Alexa websites has increased by millions, which is incredible. In short, in this conflict with Shang Cong's network or, more accurately, Li Yunshan, Wu Yan still achieved a victory. Of course, this is the result of Liang xiujuan's operation.
Liang xiujuan rarely came over recently. However, through communication on MSN, Wu Yan knew that Liang xiujuan was trying to pull investment for the project and unload the heavy investment responsibilities. Wu Yan felt a lot easier, after everything was settled, Wu Yan began his technical development work.
According to the documents written by Wu Yan some time ago, Wu Yan classified all functional points to be improved according to their importance, and then began to work on one item, at last, we had something to do, and every day we could see the progress. Wu Yan felt more steadfast.
On this day, Wu Yan is busy with system development. He is developing the function of automatically completing the first letter of Chinese characters and Chinese characters. He needs to first find out the full spelling of each Chinese Character and then cache the pinyin in the database, in this way, if you want to query "Unlimited Business Intelligence", you only need to input the "szyx" initial character of the unlimited business intelligence, and you can use the pinyin cache in the database to find the corresponding results, which greatly facilitates your operations, wu Yan thinks this function is cool. As for how to make the user realize that this function exists, he still hasn't considered it carefully, but he believes that he can find a solution.
Finally, I found a solution for this function. Wu Yan stretched out with satisfaction and leaned on the back of the chair, feeling a sense of accomplishment.
Then the doorbell suddenly rings. Who will it be? Wu Yan muttered in his heart and went to the gate.
Before opening the door, Wu Yan looked out from the eyes of the eye. Zhang shaozhi was standing outside, the engineer from Li Yunshan. To be honest, Wu Yan had a good impression on Zhang shaozhi, not only is the technology level good, but also the management aspect very good, is a rare talent. But what does he do?
Wu Yan opened the door slowly with questions.
"Hello, Mr. Wu !" Zhang shaozhi said hello to Wu in some bad directions.
"Hello! Please come in !" Said Wu.
Wu Yan invited Zhang shaozhi into his room, put him on the sofa, and poured him a glass of water.
After both of them sat down, Wu Yan first opened his mouth and asked, "How is it? Have you worked well recently ?" As soon as this problem was solved, Wu Yan felt that there was something wrong. Li Yunshan had a lot of trouble in the previous paragraph. It is estimated that Zhang shaozhi's pressure would not be too small.
"Okay !" Zhang shaozhi said, "after you went back from the previous paragraph, we changed the system on your side and used it directly to the shangcong network. At the beginning, the timeliness was good, however, it was found that there were still many problems, especially the K-Mean clustering algorithm. The results of each operation were different and seemed to be random. Similar problems were found many, we have been working overtime to add these things before, and we are about to crash!"
Wu said, as expected, they still encountered many problems when using this system. Did Zhang shaozhi seek help from himself this time? Wu Yan guessed the purpose of Zhang shaozhi's trip.
Even though I was thinking about things, Wu Yan clicked and said, "The recommendation engine and Data Mining seem to be easy to get started, but there are a lot of details to deal with in actual work, we still need some experience."
"You are very right !" Zhang shaozhi is attached.
"Then you went online ?" Wu Yan was puzzled to ask.
"Yes, Mr. Cao, oh, that is, the CTO of shangcong network does not insist on going online immediately. Mr. Li will press us. Later, we will temporarily disable many functions, cao introduced the bidding ranking, and then the system was officially launched." Said Zhang shaozhi.
"Have you signed a contract with Shang Cong network? Did you get the money ?" This is what Wu Yan cares about, so he asked the question directly.
After listening to Wu Yan, Zhang shaozhi gave a brief explanation and said with a slight embarrassment: "In fact, our Team is the person from the R & D center of the B2B business department of shangcong network, we are working on a project in the shangcong network. What Mr. Li told you last time is a little different from the actual situation!"
This is the case. It seems that Li Yunshan's 2 million project is false. Everything he did on that day is acting and he wants to get himself out of the game. Ah, it seems that he has never been wronged by Li Yunshan!
"Why are you so enthusiastic about doing this project for the company? What is his picture !" Wu Yan knew that it was unlikely to get a real answer, but asked this question because he really wanted to know.
"I am not very familiar with this specific situation, but I guess Mr. Li has always wanted to win the position of vice president of R & D, and want to take this project as a stepping stone. The project was just launched, the company appointed him as vice president of R & D. He was very happy in the past few days. He also invited us to go to Jiuhua villa for the week and hot spring!" Zhang shaozhi seems very honest.
Wu nodded and asked, "How have you been with Mr. Li recently ?"
"After being exposed in a Focal Point interview, Mr. Cao was forced to resign and Mr. Li was also removed from the position of vice president of R & D. He is now the after-sales service director, from the original 60 or 70 points to now only 20 people, it has been quite depressing recently." Said Zhang shaozhi.
"What about you? Does this adjustment of shangcong network have a major impact on you ?" Wu Yan asked with great concern.
"The impact was huge. The newly launched recommendation shopping channel was cut down, and my Team was also split. I was reassigned to the Web Front-end design group, it is very tedious to modify the CSS and Javascript code of the page all day long!" Zhang shaozhi said helplessly.
"Well! Coming on, the company's adjustments will make us feel helpless, and I have experienced this many times before !" Wu Yan comforted.
At this moment, Zhang shaozhi suddenly looked at Wu Yan with great expectation and hesitated and said, "Mr. Wu, you see you have no shortage of people. I want to come here for you! During this period of development, I am particularly interested in the recommendation engine and want to continue. In addition, I think your framework is quite good. You can use HTML5 and AJAX technologies to integrate with the server Servlet. This architecture is better than Struts and Spring and Hibernate !"
I can see that Zhang shaozhi is very sincere, not like it was installed. However, on the one hand, Zhang shaozhi's request made Wu Yan feel flattered. This was the first time that someone was attracted by the project and wanted to join in. Wu Yan was very excited, at the same time, I am very grateful to Dr. Zhang for his trust in him. On the other hand, the current state of the Project will surely accelerate the break of the capital chain. For a time, Wu Yan was in a dilemma.
Wu Yan was embarrassed to say, "I really appreciate your affirmation of me. Thank you! In this way, I will first introduce you to the basic information of our project. Are you sure you want to make a decision ?"
"Okay !" Zhang shaozhi's vision is still full of expectation.
Wu yanli explained his ideas and started to introduce Zhang shaozhi: "Our project was officially started in July and has been in operation for more than a year, during this period, we achieved the greatest achievement in developing the overall framework and basic functions of the system, but you have also seen that there are still many details to be improved. Of course, there are still some basic theoretical problems in full-text search, data mining, and recommendation engine. However, these academic issues are too strong and are not suitable for us to spend time doing so at this stage."
Zhang shaozhi listened carefully and nodded while listening.
Wu Yan continued: "In fact, you can see that our project was launched in May and May of this year, but not much progress has been made until now, this is because this project was mainly made through my personal investment. At present, this part of investment is basically used up. Because it cannot maintain the normal operation of the company, the company has actually been dissolved a few months ago!"
After hearing this, Dr. Zhang said, "That's a pity! Are you still doing this ?"
Wu nodded and continued: "I was looking for investment for this project some time ago. I want to continue, and you will know later, mr. Li wants to work with me. We have been working together for a while. Later, due to some things, Mr. Li will quit and I will be alone. However, I have a Tsinghua MBA student who is also a fellow of mine. She is working with me to solve the financing problem, and I am responsible for the development of products and services, this is the basic situation."
After listening to Wu's remarks, Zhang shaozhi said with emotion: "It seems that it is not easy for you to start a business now !"
Wu nodded his head and said with deep feelings: "Indeed, this is the hardest time I have been trying to start a business. Now I really need a miracle !" As Wu said, he smiled at himself.
Zhang shaozhi nodded and said, "but I think your project is quite good. The popular shopping portal website in foreign countries is actually the price comparison shopping function in your project, however, they only provide the shopping search function based on full-text search, and the recommendation engine function added to your project can provide users with greater value, certainly more competitive than these websites!"
Wu Yan was surprised when he heard Zhang shaozhi's words. In his impression, Zhang shaozhi is only a two-year graduate student and has been engaged in system R & D, I did not expect to study the e-commerce business model, but it was really difficult. At this stage of Zhang shaozhi, I was still thinking about mastering a core technology, he studied Video Codec, streaming media, VoIP, and other technologies frantically. At this stage, Zhang shaozhi has begun to pay attention to business issues. It seems that he is really a talent.
When I thought of it, Wu Yan said with excitement: "You are very right. We are also using this idea. However, at present, we lack the support of funds and the development speed is not fast enough !"
Wu Yan went on to say: "You see, you know the basic information about us. For me, I especially appreciate your trust in us and hope you can join us, but now we do have difficulties. If you think this is not the case, we can give you some shares for free, that is, the real Shares that can be reflected in the industrial and commercial registration. Of course, this part of the shares may not be very attractive for you now, but it is a thank you for your willingness to join us in such a difficult time! In this way, you are our shareholder and the founder of the company. Everyone is an equal partner. In terms of salary, it is really difficult now and it needs to be opened for a while. What do you think ?"
After listening to Wu's words, Dr. Zhang nodded and said, "I also want to join a startup team to experience my entrepreneurial experience. My salary is not the primary consideration ."
Zhang shaozhi was very honest, and Wu Yan was really grateful to Zhang shaozhi. When he was so difficult, some people believed in himself.
Speaking of this, Wu Yan gratefully said: "Well, we have decided on this principle. We can have another appointment to call the Tsinghua MBA. Let's discuss it together, what do you think about the stock distribution and salary issues?"
"Good !" I can see that Zhang shaozhi is a little excited.
After Zhang shaozhi was sent away, Wu Yan was really excited. When he was in the most difficult time, someone was willing to join his project. If he wanted to do so, Wu Yan could not do it.
With excitement, Wu Yan called Liang xiujuan: "Hello! Xiaojuan, is it convenient to speak ?"
"Convenient, you said !" Liang xiujuan replied.
"Today, Li Yunshan's project manager, Zhang shaozhi, came here and told me that he wanted to join our team !" Wu Yan said with excitement.
"Is Li Yunshan's project manager ?" Liang xiujuan asked inexplicably.
"Yes, but now he has gone through the department adjustment and is no longer working under Li Yunshan. By the way, he was originally from Shang Cong network, and he was not from Li Yunshan's own company !" Wu Yansheng explained to her for fear that Liang xiujuan did not understand.
"Well! Are you sure this is not a trick for Li Yunshan ?" Liang xiujuan asked.
"No, I think he is very sincere !" Wu Yan said with certainty.
"Are you planning to accept him ?" Liang xiujuan asked.
"Yes, because he was willing to join our team when we were in such a difficult situation. It was so touching !" Wu Yan said with excitement.
"Why? Do you think it's hard for us now ?" Liang xiujuan asked.
"Of course, now we are short of money and lack of people. The project is basically in a halt. Isn't it hard ?" Wu Yan asked.
"Ah, how can you think so! In fact, our situation is very good. Now we have hundreds of independent daily IP addresses, and the Alexa ranking has reached more than three thousand, there are already nearly 100,000 registered users on the website, and the development momentum is very good. In addition, we are still growing in various indicators. Several angel investors I am currently in contact with are willing to invest, but I am still thinking about which one to choose, and even some of my MBA students want to buy shares. Therefore, we are doing a great job in the present situation. Don't make a mistake !" Liang xiujuan is like giving Wu Yan a class.
After listening to Liang xiujuan's words, Wu suddenly realized that he only saw the unfavorable side and had little consideration for the favorable factors, although the situation may not be as good as Liang xiujuan said, it is indeed not too bad.
So Wu Yan said: "You are right. We are indeed improving the situation. However, it is up to you to work harder to reverse the situation !"
"Well! There should be results in the past two days. Please wait for the good news !" Liang xiujuan affirmed.
Liang xiujuan's words seem to have given Wu Yan a reassurance, and his mood has become much easier.
Let go of the call and Wu Yan will go back to system development again, but from now on, there will be no more worries. Finally, we can develop the system with peace of mind. At this moment, Wu Yan is very satisfied.
On this day, Wu Yan was busy with System Development and suddenly received a call from Liang xiujuan.
"Hello ?" Wu started the call.
"Wu Yan, didn't you arrange it in the afternoon ?" Liang xiujuan asked.
"I have no plans. What's the matter ?" Wu Yan replied.
"You'll have a visit to Qingwei venture capital at half past three P.M., and Zhao wants to have a chat with us !" Liang xiujuan said with a little joy.
Is it Zhao Zong of Qingwei venture capital ?! Didn't he change his mind before the investment last time? If he does not accept A's investment, will he not invest any more? Did he change his mind?
Wu Yan replied with a full body of questions: "Is it Zhao again? What is his appointment with us this time ?"
"You will know this in time !" Said Liang xiujuan.
Wu Yan arrived at the frontend of Qingwei venture capital at a quarter to three and found that Liang xiujuan was waiting for herself.
Wu Yan stepped forward and whispered, "You're coming !"
Liang xiujuan nodded and said, "Mr. Zhao asked us to go directly to his public office. Let's get there !"
As he said, he led Wu Yan to Zhao Haibo's office. It seems that Liang xiujuan is familiar with this, and the front-end MM of Qingwei Venture didn't ask Wu Yan to sign the ticket.
In front of Zhao Haibo's office, he knocked on the door gently.
"Please come in !" Said Zhao Haibo.
Wu Yan and Liang xiujuan opened the door and walked into Zhao Haibo's office. Zhao Haibo saw the two men come in, pushed the laptop forward, stood up, and said, "The two have come, please sit down !"
Then the cleaning aunt said, "please pour two glasses of water for the two guests. Thank you !"
Three people sat on the sofa after cleaning and bringing the water over. Zhao Haibo first opened his speech: "I saw some time ago when you had a great fight with Shang Cong's Weibo network. It can be called a classic !"
"Where, where! Zhao Zong received the award !" Liang xiujuan said modestly.
Zhao Haibo went on to say: "You have made good use of the event marketing. Listen to xiujuan, you have already visited several hundred IP addresses each day, and Alexa has ranked around three thousand, very good!"
Wu Yan listened to Zhao Haibo's words, and he was excited from his heart. The project was finally recognized.
Liang xiujuan then Zhao Haibo said: "The current development momentum is indeed good, but with more financial support, it can develop faster !"
"Yes! For example, in the previous section, when the number of independent IP addresses per day reaches about 100,000, frequent access failures may occur, which affects the user experience. If you can use the cluster solution to increase system concurrency performance, various indicators may be much better than today!" Wu Yan followed Liang xiujuan's words and said his own words.
Zhao Haibo nodded and said, "This is not a problem. We are dedicated to helping entrepreneurs solve this problem because of insufficient hardware platform capabilities !"
After the pause, Zhao Haibo went on to say, "This time, two people are called here to discuss the investment with the two. Some time ago, xiujuan showed me your business plan. I think there is no problem with your fund demand plan. We have been dealing with each other many times. It should be an acquaintance. I want to invest, and I don't need any Term Sheet. I just need to transfer the money to your account, after a while, you can copy your ID card and use it as a shareholder registration."
Wu Yan and Liang xiujuan took a pleasant look at each other and did not expect this time to be even smoother.
"But..." Zhao Haibo's words turned.
Wu Yan was afraid to hear this word, but he couldn't help worrying about it. He didn't know what conditions Zhao Haibo would have.
"I still have two questions. One is that according to my understanding, xiujuan did not actually invest money some time ago. This is not good. I think xiujuan should also make some appropriate funds, so that everyone can become a community of interests, what do you say?" Zhao Haibo turned his head to Liang xiujuan and asked.
"This is okay. I have thought about it. I will leave 0.2 million !" Liang xiujuan said cheerfully.
Liang xiujuan has talked with Zhao Haibo many times before. No wonder she is so confident.
Zhao Haibo nodded his head and said, "Well, I will generate 2 million of my shares, accounting for 20% of the shares. What about the equity distribution between you ?"
Wu Yan listened to Zhao Haibo's words, and his heart was really happy again. 2 million of the shares accounted for 20% of the shares, with more favorable conditions than before. Wu Yan has not thought about the equity distribution between himself and Liang xiujuan. However, since Liang xiujuan has also contributed, they should pay for it.
Thinking of this, Wu Yan said first: "Let's calculate the amount of direct capital contribution between us. The proportion of shares is six or four !"
Liang xiujuan gave a glance at Wu Yan and said, "I think this is not good, so Wu Yan will lose money. I 'd like to allocate it according to the method used in the last entrepreneurial competition, we reserve 20% of the shares as the core employee's equity incentive. The remaining 60%, Wu Yan accounted for 40%, And I accounted for 20%. In order to make up an integer, I took a small fraction of the price!"
Wu Yan wanted to talk about something, but Zhao Haibo opened his mouth first.
"Well, I don't have much comments on this. You can talk about the specific share distribution between you. I'm not involved !" Zhao Haibo said.
"But there is another problem. I don't know what to say, but this is a concern of our investors ." Zhao Haibo said thoughtfully.
Hearing this word, Wu Yan's heart hangs up again. He really doesn't know what else Zhao Haibo will say?
Zhao Haibo cleared the noise and said with a slight hesitation: "What I am worried about is the relationship between the two of you! As far as I know, both of you are single at present. Whether you both come together or fall out of office, it is a kind of harm to investors! For example, Xu Xin, president of today's capital company, is a typical representative. He has invested a lot in real time. The division of assets between Cai Biao and Pan Minfeng makes the market go far away, yang Haoran's divorce dispute also makes the prospect of listing untested. After investing in Tudou, Although WANG Wei and his ex-wife Yang Lei finally reached a compensation agreement, Tudou still missed the best time window for listing and eventually made the listing at a discount. I don't want to interfere in your private life, just... can you understand my worries ?"
Zhao Haibo's speech made Wu Yan feel blushing. At the moment, he did not know how to say it as well.
"Mr. Zhao, you can rest assured that our relationship is just a common relationship between fellow villagers and will not change in the future !" Liang xiujuan simply said, "We have also discussed the case you just mentioned in the MBA class. Your worries are justified ."
"Well, you can understand it. So we have a gentleman agreement. If the relationship between the two parties changes in the future, we need to withdraw from the company by one person, other shareholders can subscribe. What do you think?" Zhao Haibo proposed.
"No problem !" Wu Yan and Liang xiujuan said in unison.
Wu Yan took a curious look at Liang xiujuan and wanted to see what she looked like. Liang xiujuan didn't seem to have any expressions, which made Wu Yan somewhat confused.
Zhao Haibo nodded and said, "Well, you can add this article in the company's articles of association. I have no problem here! Please give me your bank account. I will pay you the money in the past two days !"
So Wu Yan wrote down the bank account on the paper and handed it to Zhao Haibo. Zhao Haibo glanced at it, folded it, and put it in his pocket.
Zhao Haibo looked relaxed and leaned on the sofa and said, "I have finally finished this! It's really not easy !"
"Yes !" Wu Yan joined his mind, but he was deeply touched by this.
Zhao Haibo said with deep emotion: "Yes, I used to make investment and always think about the return on investment. I am too tired to quit the mechanism! Unlike this time, I was touched by your persistence and want to help you do this !"
"Thank you, Mr. Zhao for your trust in us !" Wu Yan said with gratitude.
It is also strange to say that this time it was basically a successful financing. Wu Yan did not feel ecstatic, but felt that the road was still long and Zhao Haibo was expecting it, wu Yan felt that there was a heavy burden on his shoulders, and he was relaxed.
The incident went very smoothly. When Zhao Haibo left, it was the beginning of the light.
Coming out of the office building of Qingwei building, Beijing on the evening of May November made people feel a little cold, but Wu Yan felt very cool and breathing fresh air outside, wu Yan is very happy.
Wu Yan and Liang xiujuan walked along the overpass and watched the car lined up with a long dragon. The red tail light looked very soft and soft under the night. Wu Yan said gratefully to Liang xiujuan: "This time thanks to you, otherwise, I really don't know what to do next !"
"That's nothing. Don't forget, I am also a shareholder of this project, and I should contribute !" Said Liang xiujuan.
"Next, let's talk about equity allocation! By the way, our division of labor has been officially determined !" Wu Yan suggested.
"Okay! You can call it another name, that is, the original project manager of Li Yunshan. After talking about it, let's give it to him by the way !" Liang xiujuan said calmly.
"His name is Zhang shaozhi ." Wu Yan reminded him, and then said, "Okay, I'll arrange it when I go back ."
Liang xiujuan was not as excited as Wu Yan imagined. Wu Yan felt a little strange. However, the most important thing to deal with now is to get financing done quickly, and other things can be put aside temporarily.
Coming soon: equity allocation